I picked this up for $100 with no back window or pickup bed. But I lucked out
and got a bed for $50, and added a window. Oh.. it had no floor to speak of.
There's the transmission peeking in.

Not knowing how to weld, I bought some sheet metal and had a pop rivet party
one day....

Eventually the truck started to come around. My wife HATED it
because the passenger door stuck and she could never get it open.

Here's a funny little tryst about this
truck:

One Saturday I was on my way tick up my son Jeremy from his
after school job at Burger King. As I was driving down Boston Street on my way
to get him, I stopped for a light and this 20-ish year old girl hopped in the
passenger side door and said she needed a ride to work at the GE (which was
exactly 180 degrees in the opposite direction that I was heading. !! Despite my
explaining I was on my way to pick up my son, "Debbie", as she called
herself said it really wasn't a problem, that we could pick him and then drop
her off... Okayyyy....

.So on the 2 mile ride to pickup up Jeremy, "Debbie"
went on about how her boyfriend (named Jeremy), had just broken up with her and
that wasn't right because she thought she may be pregnant and..

even though he was a few years younger than her, he should be
responsible for his actions....

Yeah, I was getting a little pissed. The combination of "Debbies"
perfume, her story, and the images of MY baby getting involved with this
hooker .. so I figured, as I pulled into Burger King, that if these two recognize
each other I'll just flip out and kill the both of them. (figuratively)

As it turned out, "Debbies" underage ex wasn't the
Jeremy I cared about. So we drove her to work.

Later that night, at the dinner table, Jeremy said something to
the effect of , "So Dad, did you tell mom about the hooker we picked up
today?"

nice.

She never bought the story and every time she looked at the
green monster, that visual came rushing back. Eventually I sold it to the trash
picking junk store owner/neighbors (literally) we had. (We called them the
Sanfords).

The plan was to paint it up in Camouflage paint.. kind of Army
looking.. never happened though

In the picture below, the
wooden planks that the dune buggy is sitting on is what was the pickup
bed when I bought the truck.